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From: dkhusema@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Auto Boot Bypass
Message-ID: <484@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 7 Aug 89 09:35:49 GMT
References: <8908041913.AA02298@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: CS Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, West Germany
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01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:


>Alan Pratt mentioned holding down the Alt key to force a boot from floppy.
...
>But, if you do not have STARTUP or REVOLVER, I have found that all you
>have to do is boot from floppy, turn on the HD and then run AHDI from
>floppy and you get access to the HD without a reset. Worked for me, it
>might work for you!

	This might not be of much help for you (outside of West Germany), but
there exists another harddisk driver for the Atari ST, called CBHD.

	It is really great:

	- Up to 12 (twelve) partitions
	- \AUTO\, ACC's, and DESKTOP.INF can be read from *ANY* partition,
	  e.g. I have one partition setup for using my DTP program with the
	  SLM804, and another partition setup for using the DTP program for
	  Postscript output. Yet another partition will be used to start 
	  MINIX from my harddisk.

	  To do all this you can press the key coressponding to the partition
	  you want to 'boot' from (In reality the booting is done from the
	  partition I marked as bootable using the software accompanying the
	  CBHD driver, only the \AUTO\ folder, the ACC's, and DEKSTOP.INF
	  are read from the specified partition).
	- Partitions can be set to read-only
	- Any Partition can be the boot partition
	- Partitions can be left out during boot time by pressing the
	  SHIFT key
	- The ALT key trick works also
	- You can park the heads of the harddisk by using an ACC
	- The same ACC allows you to get statistics from the HD
		+ Set Partitions to read-only
		+ Simulate a media-change to GEMDOS
		+ Increase the number of folders correctly (I read that the
		  AHDI tries to do this also, but doesn't even know of 
		  Blitter TOS, so you had to use the FOLDRxxx.PRG)
	- CBHD is also able to recognize a second harddisk connected to a
	  controller (which AHDI can't - as far as I know ...)	

	All this - and a lot more of really excellent stuff - is contained in
a floppy which is available with the book

	SCHEIBENKLEISTER II by Claus Brod, Anton Stepper, published by
	MAXON in West Germany. Price: DM 79.00 (US$ 35.00).

	As far as I know it isn't available in English (yet?).

	But - provided your German is good enough this book is an absolute
must for all trying to understand floppy disk, harddisks, CD-ROM, ...


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